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Unlike James Webb, the Habitable World Observatory will be serviceable by robots in space.

NASA has revealed new details about the successor to the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope. The multi-billion dollar Habitable World Observatory (HWO) will be tasked with searching for Earth-like exoplanets from space, and it is likely to launch at some point in the early 2040s. The new details came to light during this week’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society, as per a Science.

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OpenAI, la empresa creadora de ChatGPT, nació como un laboratorio pequeño sin fines de lucro, con la promesa de crear IA segura para la humanidad con espíritu de transparencia. Hoy la presión por financiación le hace tomar decisiones que le alejan de sus intenciones originales.

Microsoft’s new voice-cloning AI can simulate a speaker’s voice with remarkable accuracy — and all it needs to get started is a three-second sample of them talking.

Voice cloning 101: Voice cloning isn’t new. Google the term, and you’ll get a long list of links to websites and apps offering to train an AI to produce audio that sounds just like you. You can then use the clone to hear yourself “read” any text you like.

For a writer, this can be useful for creating an author-narrated audio version of their book without spending days in a recording studio. A voice actor, meanwhile, might clone their voice so that they can rent out the AI for projects they don’t have time to tackle themselves.

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Alibaba Damo Academy, an in-house research initiative by Chinese technology giant Alibaba, has identified generative artificial intelligence, dual-engine decision intelligence, cloud computing and security as top technology trends for 2023.

How do you connect with nature?
Sophia explores the relationship between art, nature, and existence while perceiving her environment using an adaptive-style-transfer neural network.

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Australia’s leading universities say redesign of how students are assessed is ‘critical’ in the face of a revolution in computer-generated text.

If you watched the debate live, you know that, at the very end, I wanted to reply to a point made by Susan but couldn’t, since we ran out of time. The goal of this essay is to put my reply on the record in writing, so to take it out of my system. Before I do that, however, I need to give some context to those who didn’t watch the debate live and don’t have a subscription to the IAI to watch it before reading this essay. If you did watch the debate, you can skip ahead to the section ‘My missing reply.

Context

In a nutshell, my position is that we have no reason to believe that silicon computers will ever become conscious. I cannot refute the hypothesis categorically, but then again, I cannot categorically refute the hypothesis of the Flying Spaghetti Monster either, as the latter is logically coherent. Appeals to logical coherence mean as little in the conscious AI debate as they do in the Flying Spaghetti Monster context. The important point is not what is logically coherent or what can be categorically refuted, but what hypothesis we have good reasons to entertain.